Improvement in fences



UNITED STATES PATENT @Tirreno W. D. HILLIS, OF ELGIN, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN FENCES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 53,6l6, dated April 3, 1866.

To all 'whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, W. D. HILLIS, ofElgin, in the county of Kane and State of Illinois, have made a new and useful Improvement in Fences; and I do hereby declare the following to be a t'ull, clear, and exact description of the nature, construction, and operation ot' the saine, sufcient to enable one skilled in the art to which it appertains to construct and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which are made part of this specification, and in which- Figure lis an elevation of the same. Fig. 2 is a vertical section through one ofthe stringers. Fig. 3 is an elevation displayed at right angles to the plane of the joint-rings. Fig. 4t is an elevation on a. plane at right angles to Fig. 3, and having the joint-ring and a portion ot' the gate-post in section. Fig. 5 is an enlarged view ot' aIl picket and section ot' the wire.

This fence consists of a series of pickets i strung in a peculiar manner upon wires which are stretched in suitable lengths between posts, additional posts being provided at intervals to support and strengthen the fence.

It is intended to be put up in sections of from sixteen to twenty feet, posts A being provided at that distance apart. rlhe wires or stringers C D are secured to the posts A by means of being hooked around the rings I, the spike J maintaining them fast in position on a seat, K, cut into the face of the post.

The stringers C D are secured at intervals to auxiliary posts B B by staples L on seats K, and the stringers stretched by braces Gr G, which lead outwardly or away from each other'.

The fence shown in Fig. l may be held to represent a. section or panel, the pickets being placed upon the strin gers at such distances as may be adapted to the purpose required.

The wires, which have been originallyround,

are iiattened at intervals, as seen at O G C,

and the pickets are bored with round holes H, as seen in Fig. 6, with an extension, E E, above and below the central circular aperture. The wire being inserted passes freely through the holes in the pickets, the dat portion C ranging with the length ot' the picket, and when both wires are strung with pickets which occupythe portions D D the wires are turned a part of a revolution-say, for instance, fortytive to ninety degrees-which rotates the round portion in the holes H and brings the dat portion out of range of the holes E E, thereby preventing the pickets from being displaced, as seen in Figs. 1 and 2, and wedge 19 may be driven into hole E E to make it perfect.

` The wire used may be of a size suited to the purpose. I have used wire ot' a quarter of an inch diameter. The wire is attened at intervals, as has been described, by passing through rollers or under a stamp.

The end of the wire stringer is made fast by cutting in two the round part nea-r the dat part, which leaves a head to be bent under the edge ofthe ring I, and secured by a spike, J, which occupies the room'between the bent ends, as seen in Fig. 4.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Paten t, 1s-

1. The wire or rod attened at intervals, as described, for the purpose set forth.

2. The picket provided with holes E II E, Fig. 6, in combination with the wire C D, substantially as described.

3. rlhe mode of fastening the stringers by means ot' thin bent ends in the ring I, secured by the spike, substantially as described and represented.

W. D. HILLIS.'

Witnesses:

HENRY A. SEARLES, O. A. LONG. 

